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CVE-2026-59865

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Description

Kiota is an OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.32.5, `kiota info` read x-ms-kiota-info.languagesInformation.<language>.dependencyInstallCommand plus dependency name and version values from an OpenAPI description and presented the spec-supplied command as Kiota's recommended install command, allowing an attacker-controlled or compromised description to cause command injection when the suggested command was run manually or through the Kiota VS Code extension's kiota info --json dependency-install flow. This issue is fixed in version 1.29.1 and 1.32.5.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.3 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-16 16:19:15.373000
Last modified
2026-10-24 20:10:00.137000
View original CVE JSON
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  "id": "CVE-2026-59865",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-07-16T16:19:15.373",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-24T20:10:00.137",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
  "cveTags": [],
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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "Kiota is an OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.32.5, `kiota info` read x-ms-kiota-info.languagesInformation.<language>.dependencyInstallCommand plus dependency name and version values from an OpenAPI description and presented the spec-supplied command as Kiota's recommended install command, allowing an attacker-controlled or compromised description to cause command injection when the suggested command was run manually or through the Kiota VS Code extension's kiota info --json dependency-install flow. This issue is fixed in version 1.29.1 and 1.32.5."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "Kiota es un generador de código de cliente HTTP basado en OpenAPI. Antes de la versión 1.32.5, ’kiota info’ leía x-ms-kiota-info.languagesInformation.[language].dependencyInstallCommand más los valores de nombre y versión de la dependencia de una descripción OpenAPI y presentaba el comando proporcionado por la especificación como el comando de instalación recomendado de Kiota, permitiendo que una descripción controlada por un atacante o comprometida causara inyección de comandos cuando el comando sugerido se ejecutaba manualmente o a través del flujo de instalación de dependencias ’kiota info --json’ de la extensión de Kiota para VS Code. Este problema está solucionado en la versión 1.32.5."
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
      "affectedData": [
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          "vendor": "microsoft",
          "product": "kiota",
          "versions": [
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          "confidentialityRequirement": "NOT_DEFINED",
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          "role": "CISA Coordinator",
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  "weaknesses": [
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      "source": "[email protected]",
      "type": "Secondary",
      "description": [
        {
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          "value": "CWE-94"
        },
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  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/commit/e1d6d76c6eecbe50785429166faaf8c831e036c6",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/pull/7883",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/releases/tag/v1.32.5",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/security/advisories/GHSA-hq9q-27g5-qwpj",
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